Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [250]
omission from Letters
Sue at Lake Michigan (1854-5)
Sue in Baltimore (1851-2)
Sue’s ownership of letters
Mabel Todd’s tampering with
health and
with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
with the Hollands
with Jane Humphrey
with Helen Hunt Jackson
with Otis Lord
with Mabel’s parents
‘Master’ letters, see ‘Master’ letters of ED
with Zebina Montague
at Mount Holyoke
with Benjamin Franklin Newton
with Thomas Niles
with Joel Norcross (uncle)
with Norcross sisters
publication of
Letters
Letters (revised edition, 1931)
The Letters of Emily Dickinson, i-iii (eds Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, 1958)
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
with Abiah Root
to schoolmates
with Mabel Todd
transmission of poems through
with Charles Wadsworth
with Maria Whitney
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (literary and personal relationships)
Samuel Bowles, see Bowles, Samuel: ED and
Austin Dickinson, see Dickinson, Austin (brother of ED)
Mattie Dickinson
Susan Dickinson, see Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert): ED and
Vinnie Dickinson, see Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED)
Martha Gilbert
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, see Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: ED and
Helen Hunt Jackson
Otis Lord
omission from Letters
Benjamin Franklin Newton
parents, see Dickinson, Edward (father of ED); Dickinson, Emily (née Norcross, mother of ED)
Mabel Todd
ED’s avoidance of Mabel
ED’s rebuffs
gifts for ED
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (poetic and literary themes/issues)
Samuel Bowles and
Charlotte Brontë influence of, see Brontë, Charlotte
Emily Brontë influence of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, influence of
childhood, poems on
confessional gestures
‘Daisy’ role
deathless love
Susan Dickinson, poems addressed to
editorial interference and
George Eliot, admiration of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence of
geology
grammar
gun theme
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and, see Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: ED and
home-made booklets
Thomas H. Johnson and
Mabel Todd’s tampering with
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (2 vols, ed. R. W. Franklin, 1981)
immortality and
improvisation
‘letter-poems’
lineation
‘Master’
see also ‘Master’ letters of ED
music and, see music and ED’s poetry
poetic style
earthquakes
see also volcanoes
mines
imagery
publication
imposition of titles
postponement of
unsuccessful attempts
published poems/collections
Bolts of Melody (1945)
Complete Poems (1924)
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia (1929)
Poems (12 November 1890)
The Poems of Emily Dickinson (3 vols, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955, repr. as The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1976)
Poems: Second Series
Poems: Third Series
The Single Hound: Poems of a Life-time (1914)
in Springfield Republican
Unpublished Poems (1935)
see also Franklin, R. W.: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (3 vols, ed., 1998)
publishing rights, see publishing rights
punctuation
dashes
losses during transcription/printing
‘Queen’ theme
reciprocal responses to poems
reviews of published works
Romantic subjectivity and
Christina Rossetti, influence of
Mabel Todd as editor of, see Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED)
transmission of poems through letters/private circulation
variant versions of poems
‘wife’ poems
working methods
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (WORKS of), see Index of First Lines
Dickinson, Emily (née Norcross, mother of ED)
death of (1882)
health of
housekeeping and
marriage to Edward Dickinson
Dickinson, Gilbert (Gib, nephew of ED)
death of (1883)
Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED)
birth of (1833)
Samuel Bowles and
character of
childhood and education
death of (31 August 1899)
Austin Dickinson and
Austin’s will
Mattie Dickinson and
Ned Dickinson and
Susan Dickinson and
ED and
ED’s health
ED’s physical appearance
Letters
publishing rights, see publishing rights: Vinnie Dickinson and ED’s poetry and
hidden manuscripts
life’s work discovered after death
ownership of manuscripts
Poems
Poems: Second Series
Poems: Third Series
health of
Thomas